I miss you Sam!!

I miss you Sam!!

Monday, February 22, 2016

My World

This
is the world I want to see/visit today!! I’m tired of GRAY skies and RAIN!!! I hope all of you have a great new week!! Enjoy!

Forgive
me for not being able to comment on more of your wonderful “My World” posts
today, but I’m not going to be able to visit you wonderful fellow bloggers for
a while.Some unexpected problems have
arisen that will need my care and attention and I’m not sure for just how long.I will miss all of you and hope you have a
great new year!!

Thank
you for the joy and delight you have brought to my years of blogging!!!

Spring will be there soon. Today is our daughters birthday ... I wish I was in Oregon ...even if it is gray. (She said she has tulips and Violet's and pussy willow blooming. I miss her and the spring flowers.)

Sylvia ... I came back because I'm visiting from OWT and couldn't remember if your post I saw yesterday was linked or if it was an earlier one. But I didn't remember reading about your unexpected problems...I hope you are OK ... I will be sending you best thoughts and virtual hugs. Thank you so much for all you do for our blogging world.

What Can I Say?

I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.

Stop Hate Starting Here

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellowPerhaps if the sun’s tears would singagainst a white stone....

Such, such a yellowIs carried lightly ’way up high.It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye.

For seven weeks I’ve lived in herePenned up inside this ghetto.But I have found what I love here.The dandelions call to meAnd the white chestnut branches in the court.

Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one.Butterflies don’t live in here, in the ghetto.

Written by Pavel Friedman, June 4, 1942 Born in Prague on Jan. 7, 1921.Deported to the Terezin Concentration Camp on April 26, 1942. Died in Aushchwitzon Sept. 29, 1944.

Thank You, Anthony!!

Check out his blog and photos!

Chasing Ashes

I love to write and it has been a hobby for a long time. Mysteries were always my escape reading during some of the darker times of my life and I finally decided to give it a try. I've actually written seven over the years. Unfortunately, my last computer disaster resulted in my losing three of the latest four. I did manage to salvage this one.